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Human Rights and Crime Control in the Digital Age

 

Date
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Host
Time (CET)
17:00 - 18:30
Language
English
 

The digital age has seen both a proliferation of technologically enabled crimes and a commensurate increase in the development and deployment of technology for the purposes of crime prevention and crime control. Featuring multidisciplinary and regionally diverse perspectives, this panel explores the complexities of ensuring the protection of human rights in contexts where technology is deployed to prevent or counter crime. Drawing on case studies from Nigeria, Morocco, and the United States, panellists shared insights on human rights led strategies to address both entrenched and evolving forms of cybercrime. One such strategy involves an enhanced focus on digitally relevant human rights education for the justice actors of the future. Accordingly, this session highlighted the innovative pedagogical tools developed under the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative on topics of cybercrime and crime prevention and criminal justice. The themes explored in this panel underscore the importance of ensuring that crime prevention efforts in the digital age are guided by a commitment to human rights and the principles of privacy and equal human dignity.

 

Panellists

Moderator

Wendy O’Brien

Legal Officer, Violence against Children, UNODC

Dr. O’Brien is Legal Officer on Violence against Children at UNODC. Wendy also works with the UNODC Education for Justice initiative and leads on the development of educational curricula to enhance tertiary teaching on crime prevention and criminal justice. In addition, Wendy is adjunct Associate Professor with Deakin University (Australia). In this capacity she publishes on topics of children’s rights, violence prevention, and human rights led law reform. Wendy’s co-edited book, Violence Against Children in the Criminal Justice System, was published by Routledge in 2020.

https://twitter.com/DrWendyOBrien

“Hmaza mon bb Blackmail Case: the Role of Moroccan Social Media Influencers in Human Rights Advocacy”

Bahija Jamal

Law Professor, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco

Bahija Jamal is a Law Professor at Mohammedia Faculty of Law, Hassan II University in Casablanca. She is an expert on migration and anti-human trafficking issues. Bahija teaches specific modules on migration, combating human trafficking and smuggling of Migrants for postgraduate students. She conducted fieldwork and academic research on migration, human trafficking and terrorism. Bahija previously worked for UNHCR as RSD eligibility office and worked also for the Ministry in Charge of Moroccan Living Abroad and Migration Affairs. Bahija represented the Ministry at the Committee in charge of drafting Morocco’s anti-trafficking law and the one in charge of drafting immigration Law.

http://www.univh2c.ma/

Cybercrime Management and Control: The Nigerian Situation

Adedeji Oyenuga

Senior Lecturer, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria

Dr Adedeji Oyenuga is a Senior Lecturer and Criminologist in the Department of Sociology at Lagos State University, with teaching experience of over 15 years. He has published chapters in books, journals, and conference proceedings, and is the lead author in “Security Education” a book for Basic One to Nine in Nigeria. Dr Oyenuga is a member of the Nigerian Anthropological and Sociological Practitioners Association, the International Sociological Association, and the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa. He is involved in Cybercrime Education with UNODC, a documentary with the New York Times, and the profiling of famous cybercriminals with the Wall Street Journal.

https://lasu.edu.ng/home/profile/?id=369 | http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6lBRFP4AAAAJ&hl=en | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adedeji_Oyenuga | https://twitter.com/adedeji252

Surveillance in the Age of COVID-19

Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras

Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Dr. Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras is a tenured Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds a DPhil in Law and an MPhil and MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Haven and UMUC. Her academic background and research cover cybercrime and other forms of transnational crime, as well as cybersecurity, data protection, and the legal, political, social, cultural, and economic impact of digital technology. Dr. Maras is the author of numerous peer-reviewed academic journal articles and books, the most recent of which is Cybercriminology, published by Oxford University Press.

@MelaMaras

 

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